A new conversation on ‘spending wisely’
Today the Fabian Society publishes the first report of our Commission on Future Spending Choices, a year-long inquiry…
Andrew Harrop
A shrinking state is a right-wing fantasy
Yesterday on LabourList Adam Lent argued that the Labour Party has been overrun by ‘vulgar Fabianism’. In saying…
No Labour Chancellor should contemplate adopting Osborne’s economic figures
In the new edition of the Fabian Review magazine, I make the case for Labour to ignore the temptation to…
Terrible news for the Coalition (and Labour)
The growth figures in George Osborne’s budget are terrible news for the coalition. But they hardly make good…
Ed Miliband is not Tony Blair – he’ll need to seize power in his own way
It’s now well known that the single greatest explanation for Labour’s steady lead in the polls is the…
Painful spending choices will happen, even if a future Labour chancellor can avoid an outright cut in expenditure
P.G Wodehouse said ‘it is a good rule in life never to apologise’. As he delivered a grim…
This Halloween beware of Labour’s zombie voters
We all know it’s a long way from a 2015 general election. An awful lot could change and…
What people think about when they think about public services…
‘Public’, ‘service’, ‘reform’. The very words are enough to make any long-time observer of Labour’s policy wrangles tremble.…
Introducing Ed’s converts
It’s a truism of politics that elections are won from the centre-ground. New Fabian analysis suggests however that…
This is a budget of reheated Thatcherism, making Britain still more unequal
The Chancellor has unveiled a huge tax cut for high earners, while saying nothing about the real-terms cuts…
